Offers practical advice on how to enhance one's communication skills to promote professional success and improve personal relationships.

Provides advice on preparing and giving a speech, and discusses stage fright, dramatic readings, speaking extemporaneously, dealing with mistakes, using audiovisual equipment, and being a listener.

"Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList. "Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument...

More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides more ways to improve conversational skills by: